Asia to Study Promoting Infrastructure Bonds

By

Natasha Brereton-Fukui

April 4, 2013 9:38 a.m. ET

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei—Asian countries will study how to promote infrastructure bonds, as a means of channeling funds from within the region into much-needed investment in the sector, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.

The decision was made at Brunei meetings of Association of Southeast Asian Nations finance officials with their counterparts from China, Japan and South Korea, a grouping known as Asean+3, said the...